There is one skill that will stop you from falling for online grifters and Charlin, who themselves are victims of the Dunning Kruger effect. They learn a little bit about a topic, think they know it ton about it, and then confidently give advice to millions of people on the Internet Often times they have a credentials in a totally separate space that makes you more likely to trust them, so you assume that they’re confident in this particular topic as well well-founded.
Learn to only trust statements that are backed up by evidence, And learn to evaluate the quality of evidence. You don’t have to be an expert in a field to recognize when study being cited was only done on cells in the future, on rats, or was an observational study.